Narcissus and Oedipus : The Children of Psychoanalysis.
Title:
Narcissus and Oedipus : The Children of Psychoanalysis.
Author:
Hamilton, Victoria.
ISBN:
9781849400183
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Series:
MARE
Contents:
COVER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- Part I: NARCISSUS -- The myth of Narcissus -- Preface: some theoretical views -- 1. Primary narcissism and primary fusion/union -- 2. Primary internal object-relationships -- 3. Primary object-love and primary affectional bonds -- 4. Interactional synchrony and mutuality -- 5. Narcissus: an 'average' history -- 6. Narcissus and Echo -- TRANSITION -- 7. The concept of transitional schemas -- 8. The 'fate' of the transitional object -- 9. The watching agency and its products -- Part II: OEDIPUS -- 10. The Theban legend: Oedipus the King -- 11. The riddle of life -- 12. Knowledge and the tragic vision -- 13. 'A holy curiosity' -- 14. The limits of knowledge and the castration complex -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Freud organised the theory of the child's journey to adulthood around the myths of Narcissus and Oedipus. In this intelligent study, the author re-examines these myths to see if a radical reinterpretation of them will give birth to new sets of images through which psychoanalysts can contemplate the contemporary patient.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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